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Jmoss
Apr-25-2004, 6:39pm
Mando Tape #(Frank Wakefield's Loar in Europe)

http://www.candlewater.com/MandoTape/

Jim Moss
FWB

evanreilly
Apr-25-2004, 7:55pm
Yeah, and why is he using white tape when Bobby Osborne uses black tape???

futrconslr
Apr-26-2004, 7:23am
Why is he using tape at all?

mandodude
Apr-26-2004, 3:54pm
I say we all ought to put tape over the names on our headstocks... sure would quell a lot of arguments...

Jmoss
Apr-26-2004, 4:01pm
The white tape was used because it was given to him in Sweden when
he thought of using tape to express his feelings and he went with it. #
I think he might have liked the fact that white was even more apparent.

The reason...?
Well... #that is the issue at hand isn't it?
What are the reasons for Bobby and David?
Are they to be taken as a group or individually?
So many questions when you start to look at it, are there not?

Jim Moss
FWB

duuuude
Apr-28-2004, 8:10am
Maybe we should all start a movement using clear tape!
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

GBG
Apr-28-2004, 8:28am
Did all this tape come about as a result of the advent of the Gibson signature models, with some of the famous players getting a model and some not?

BenE
Apr-28-2004, 8:37am
I think a cool inlay would be like the old hangman game...You could have something like this

G _ _ S _ N
with a gallows inlay....complete with a head and maybe a torso and arm http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

KevinM
Apr-28-2004, 9:21am
"Did all this tape come about as a result of the advent of the Gibson signature models, with some of the famous players getting a model and some not?"

That'd be my guess. But I do hear Gibson is secretly working on Frank Wakefield signature model under the code name "SHAKE 'N BAKE".

rixter
Apr-28-2004, 2:57pm
"Yeah, and why is he using white tape when Bobby Osborne uses black tape??? "

Don't you know? That's the special Frank Wakefield SOG tape!

Frankmc
Apr-28-2004, 9:40pm
I don't get it either. You mean the instrument is good enough to continue to play but the name on the head stock is not?

Frankmc

cbogle
Apr-28-2004, 10:13pm
I suppose white tape on the peghead is less harmful than painting it red, or baking it in an oven.

On second thought: perhaps a "Master Chef Model"? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

KevinM
Apr-29-2004, 10:04am
More completely gratuitous, and no doubt erroneous and completely un-informed musings: Frank is obviously worthy of a signature model, but to me he is closely identified with a Loar, and my understanding from various posts by Charlie and Joe is the Master Model is, at least now, not the subject of any variations like the Fern line is. With Ferns, you can have yer Diet Coke, Caffeine Free Coke, or Vanilla Coke, but with Master Models (absent any custom jobs) it is strictly one flavor. I guess then you're looking at a free Master Model as a nod to his contribtion to mando-dom, but if you already have a Loar that has been precision-baked to achieve a pefect bluegrass tone, why bother?

JeffS
Apr-29-2004, 4:16pm
That tape looks photoshopped to me. It's too white, but then so is his bandana so maybe it is tape. I need to go home.:O